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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
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1294 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 30
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall not be lawful for any person in Frederick
and Anne Arundel counties, to shoot, kill or in any way trap
or destroy any blue bird, swallow, martin, robbin, cat bird,
wood-pecker, sparrow, wren, whippoorwill, dove-or any insectivorous bird at any season of the year under the penalty
of two dollars for each bird so killed, taken or destroyed.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall not be lawful for
any person to kill or destroy any pheasants or partridges be-
tween the first day of January and the fifteenth day of Oc-tober, or any rabbits between the first day of February and
the first day of October, under the penalty of five dollars for
each and every pheasant or partridge so killed, taken or de-
stroyed.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That no person shall at any time
during the year wilfully destroy the eggs or nests of any such
birds as are named in this Act, within the said counties, un-
der the penalty of two dollars for each and every offence.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the possession by any per-
son within the counties aforesaid, of any of the birds men-
tioned in this Act as shot, killed or otherwise destroyed shall
be prima facie evidence to commit under this Act.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted. That any person offending
against any of the provisions of this Act and being convicted
thereof before any Justice of the Peace in the counties of
Frederick or Anne Arundel, upon the oath or affirmation of
one or more witnesses shall forfeit the fine or fines named in
this Act, one-half to the use of the School Fund of said coun-
ties and the other half to the use of the informer, and if the
offender, after being convicted of the crime, shall refuse to
pay the said fines so imposed by this Act, he or they shall be
committed to the Jail of the county in which the crime was
committed, for every such offence, for the space of ten days ,
provided, however, that such convictions shall be made within
sixty days after committing the offence.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Constable and Bailiff of the several Election Districts of the
counties aforesaid, or wards of the several cities, to arrest all
persons whom they may see violating any of the sections of
this Act, and take them before the nearest Justice of the
Peace to be dealt with as this Act directs.
Sec. 7. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
LEWIS H. STEINER,
L. M. PHILLIPS,
E. J. HENKLE.
Which was adopted, and,

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